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JOURNAL OF A WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHER

LA RENCONTRE

My dad would often take me here for a walk, but mostly to calm and entertain me. I like so much this walk by the sea which rocked my childhood. When I was growing up I thought that one day I will do a photo shoot here. It was with Amaury and Shannon that I shared this moment at sunset. Amaury is French and Shannon fell under her spell. It's so good to live in the French way!

THE PRE WEDDING PHOTO SHOOT ATMOSPHERE

It was the sunset, I reassured Shannon and Amaury by telling them that the beach was going to empty because the tourists were leaving at the time of the aperitif. We had the beach for us alone a walk between the colorful fishing boats that I love so much and these ruins overlooking the bay of Cannes.

LA RENCONTRE

I'm not a morning person, except for those moments. Raised at 6:00 am, my camera bag and my batteries charged and ready for my first meeting with my French couple Cécile and Aurélien. They have been living in Australia for several years and it’s in Bali that they chose to celebrate their union. I like this privileged as a wedding photographer moment a few days before the wedding where I have the opportunity to kidnap and to have just for me the future bride and groom. A moment when time stops where the race after the organization pauses just to take this moment to two.

THE PRE WEDDING PHOTO SHOOT ATMOSPHERE

I love the morning, ride through the villages and see little by little wake up villages and villagers. Their daily rituals of prayers and see the smoke of the ancients ambulate the alleys. I plunge into lanes that only locals take to find me in front of paddy fields, as far as the eye can see. At the end of my road, this isolated beach, immense and just to me, then it’s these rolls of huge waves that made tourists flee. To our greatest happiness Cécile and Aurélien we could invest the beach to their liking ... revise their first dance leaving the footsteps of their footsteps in the black sand or splash the other just for the sake of seeing each other's clothes marry the curves of his body. A few exchanges of glances and laughter the time for the sun to go up too high to remind us that it is time to end our morning walk to join the wedding guests just waking up waiting for us at the Brunch.

LA RENCONTRE

We had met at the exit of Abbesses metro. I love this place that I think is very Parisian, with cobblestones and bakeries overlooking the square. It’s with great pleasure that I discover Thomas and Chantelle, very casual but elegant. A real look for a Sunday walk in Paris. £

THE PRE WEDDING PHOTO SHOOT ATMOSPHERE

We were in Montmartre on weekends and the weekend Montmartre is always full of people. I love the atmosphere of this neighborhood between street artists who stop people to draw their caricature, tourists discovering the neighborhood and Parisians who hang on the coffee terraces reading their newspapers.